Challenges Faced by Francophone Immigrants

Running head: CHALLENGES FACED BY FRANCOPHONE IMMIGRANTS 1
Challenges faced by Francophone immigrants
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Part A: Summaries of the chosen articles
The chosen region for the research in Toronto, Ontario and which is situated outside
Québec. The title for the first chosen article is “Francophone immigrants face greater challenges
outside Quebec” and which is going to discuss the problem associated with French-speaking
immigrants in Toronto, Ontario. According to the article, it is evident that a person from Senegal
named Cheikh Diagne got disappointed after shifting to Toronto, Ontario. He had found that
some of the Canadian employers have properly identified his expertise and skills as an economist
and banker. But on the other hand, he had encountered an act of disrespect by most of the
Canadian employers as they found Mr. Diagne to be capable of getting jobs in customer service
and call centers. Based on the statement of Cheikh Diagne it is evident that French is not
considered to be the official language in many regions of Canada mostly outside Québec (Keung,
2017). Being French as the first language, Mr. Diagne has been facing several kinds of barriers
for integrating and accessing the services. He has also declared out of disappointment that being
a francophone immigrant, he was considered to be an unidentified minority within other minority
groups.
The title of the second chosen article is “French new wave: A cultural shift for Toronto as
‘invisible francophones’ settle in” which clearly depicts about the cultural shift that occurs for
the French-speaking population settling to Toronto, Ontario. In the article, it has been mentioned
that the French-speaking population is considered to be invisible francophones (Ross, 2015). In
spite of getting several kinds of guarantees through the Charter of Freedom and Rights, it has
been found that there were very few French schools being established in Toronto, Ontario. The
greatest fear of the French-speaking population was that whether they would be able to sustain in

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Toronto by carrying forwarding their culture and language. According to the article, it is evident
that there was going to be a major cultural modification in Toronto due to the providing of
French language training (Cook, 2016). The impact of cultural isolation in Toronto was so much
that most of the people were unaware about the fact that according to Section 23 related to
Charter it is evident that the French language needs to be there for all the students attending
school (Ross, 2015).
The title of the third chosen article is “Lost for words: One in every 20 Torontonians
can’t speak English or French, study finds” that discusses the issues of the people staying in
Toronto regarding the speaking of French or English. According to the article, it is evident that
about one out of 20 Torontonians is unable to speak French or English and which results in
creating a huge language barrier for them. It has also been found that these kinds of language
barrier result in causing an issue related to the finding of the job (Kueng, 2018). Based on the
social planning report of Toronto it is evident that approximately 132, 700 residents of Toronto
do not have the capability of doing conversation in either French or English and there had been
20.5 percent of 648, 970 non-French and non-English speaking inhabitants present in whole
Canada.
Part B: Discussion of the chosen articles
During the discussion of the first article it has been found that due to the changing
patterns of global migration, it can be seen that Canada had shifted its profile of francophone
immigrants since last ten years. The reason behind the fact is that many French-speaking people
are coming from Europe and Africa to Canada by increasing the number of refugees in Africa.
Based on the reports of the Ontario Office of Francophone Affairs it has been found that many

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francophone refugees born in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa (Keung, 2017). They are
trying to shift to Toronto, Ontario and are distinguished as visible minorities. According to
Léonie Tchatat, who is known to be the founder of La Passerelle IDE identified the fact that
francophone visible minority refugees are facing a huge amount of challenges for settling down
in Toronto, Ontario. In spite of providing various kinds of opportunities for the francophone
employees that includes exception of the labor market and online immigration portal for the
francophone, it has been found that they unable to fulfill their desired targets (Pennycook, 2017).
The discussion related to the second article evaluates the fact that due to the new cultural
shift in Toronto there arose several kinds of issues associated with invisible francophone. The
first French language school in Toronto area was established in the year 1988 and which is
presently served by one Catholic and one public. According to the research it has been found that
around 1000 francophone immigrants are setting in various sectors of Toronto (Dam, Chan &
Wayland, 2018). The elder people are more concerned about the future of their kids and for that
reason, they are planning to teach their children both the French language followed by the
English language. The parents are trying to make their child believe that the French language is
not a minority language while several kinds of successful events are associated with this
language.
During the discussion of the third article, it has been noticed that there has been diversity
in Toronto where the women and elderly persons are not capable of speaking in the French or
English language. The research has evaluated the fact that if an individual is not comfortable
with the official language then they are going to face various kinds of issues related to
unemployment (Saunders et al., 2016). Moreover, if an individual staying in Toronto does not
have the capability to speak in either French or English, then they will face difficulties while